The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship Health Care Principles through the phenomenology of relationships with patients /

• Main Author: Mallia, Pierre (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics, 2
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Health psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Health Psychology.

 This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches. 

 Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Critical overview of principlist theories -- 1.1 The ‘Four-Principles’ Approach -- 1.1.1 Theoretical basis -- 1.1.2 The Paradigm case -- 1.1.3 The doctor-patient relationship -- 1.2  Robert Veatch’s model of Lexical Ordering -- 1.3 The Principle of Permission -- CHAPTER 2 Phenomenological roots of Principles -- 2.1  The nature of the physician-patient relationship -- 2.1.1 Communication -- 2.1.2 Goals of Medicine -- 2.1.3  The ‘care’ in Health Care -- 2.1.4  The special bond -- 2.2  The Principle of Beneficence and virtue -- 2.3  Nonmaleficence -- 2.3.1  Patient authority or trust -- 2.3.2  Epistemology -- 2.4  Respect for Autonomy -- 2.4.1  A historical and epistemological perspective -- 2.4.2  A cultural appraisal -- 2.5  The dual nature of Justice -- 2.5.1  The Justice of society -- 2.5.2  Justice in Health-Care -- CHAPTER 3 Principles as a consequence of the relationship -- 3.1  Need for grounding principles in -- the relationship -- 3.2  Defining the ontological entities -- 3.3 The physician as an entity -- 3.3.1  Levelling-down of medical relationships -- 3.3.2  Being as Understanding -- 3.4  The Patient as entity - potential for being truly-autonomous -- 3.4.1  Dimensions of the illness experience -- 3.4.2  True Autonomy and the Authenticity of the relationship -- 3.5 Hermeneutics of the relationship -- 3.6  Phenomenology of the clinical encounter -- CHAPTER 4 The principle of Justice in a secular society -- 4.1 Being-with-one-another and the Golden Rule -- 4.1.1 Being-with-one-another -- 4.1.2  The Golden Rule -- 4.2  Common Values -- 4.2.1  Implications in Bioethics -- 4.2.2 The naturalistic fallacy -- 4.3  Common morality and Being-with-one-another -- 4.3.1 Confronting rival traditions -- 4.3.2 Being-with-one-another -- CHAPTER 5 The question of social construct theories Reappraising and phenomenology of the doctor-patient relationship.-    5.1 Post-modernism and medicine -- 5.2 Socially constructed theories -- 5.3 A philosophy based on the phenomenology of the relationship -- 5.4 The ontology of the patient, the doctor and the relationship -- 5.5 Truth concealed -- 5.6 The Clinical Encounter -- CHAPTER 6.-  Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.             .